The year is 2011. While serving in Afghanistan, Captain Dan Quin of the United States Army Special Forces learns that a local militia commander- one of many supported by the United States Army- has abducted a young boy and chained him to his bed. concerned, Quin and a fellow soldier confront the alleged pedophile and demanded an explanation.
To no one's surprise, the bastard, in typical scumbag fashion, just brushes it off. When Quin tells the commander that when you worked with US special forces, human rights are not suggestions, the schmuck just laughs, probably while twirling a sinister mustache. Furious, Quin and his comrade sieze the commander and threw him to the floor. In a superhuman exercise in self control, they leaves the commander with some light injuries and a warning: leave the boy alone, or else. Emphasis on “else”.
In a sane world, these allegations would have been investigated, the commander in question would have been tried, convicted, and sentenced to rehabilitation...by firing squad. Quin and his friend might have received a slap on the wrist at worst. Unfortunately, we do not live in a sane world. Like the punchline to some sick joke, the militia commander got a light slap on the wrist, while Quin was relieved of command and eventually pulled from Afghanistan, and the Army is trying repeatedly to retire his fellow soldier.
This case is not an isolated incident. All over Afghanistan, there have been reports of Afghani police and militia officers sexually abusing undearage boys. Even worse, unlike western pedophiles, these scumbags rarely bother to hide the fact that they prey on young boys. To these “people”, pedophilia isn’t a crime- it’s a way of life.
For those of you who don’t have the energy for a fifteen-second Google search, Bacha Bazi (literally “boy play”) has a long, long history in Central Asian countries such as Afghanistan. For centuries, wealthy and powerful men could purchase young boys as sex slaves. During the reign of the ultra-conservative Taliban, the practice was outlawed-one of the very few good things the Taliban has done. But now, with the cat’s away, the child-raping mice have come back out to play.
And what has the United States Army, supposedly the strongest force for peace on Earth, done to stop it? Absolutely nothing. When they hear the screams of some pre-teen being raped, the Army just wants its troops to put their hands in their pockets and look the other way. According to New York Times, one such soldier told his father that his superiors had told him to look the other way, that it was “part of [the rapists] culture”. In another case, in which a commander stole his troop’s pay and spent in on “dancing boys”, when troops reported the incident to their superiors, they were told that they had done the right thing, but that there was nothing they could do.
The problem is that our government doesn’t want to offend our so-called ally. Wrong as it is, they refuse to impose what they see as western values on a part of the Middle East that literally has pedophilia as part of its cultural heritage. They don’t care that innocent children are being abused, or that it’s alienating us from the villagers we’re supposed to be helping.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is unacceptable. For us to stand by while innocent children are raped makes us just as guilty as the rapists themselves. We can’t let this go on. Write to your Representatives. Share this on Facebook. Tell your family, your friends, your friends’ friends, your friends’ friends. We need to tell the US Army that we don’t want allies like these.